Does anyone else live in the Middle East region and have to watch this tripe. They may as well change the name to Liverpool FC TV. For the United Spurs semi final at the weekend their expert pundits were Jason McAteer and John Arne Riise!
BeIN Sports - anyone else suffer the misfortune of having to watch this?
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I remember being offered a subscription for this channel in my country, I refused because the name is fecking cringy.
Looks like I made a correct decision.
Looks like I made a correct decision.
I do and I enjoy it. You get all the latest sacked managers on and a lot of true legends of football as pundits.
I’m not sure what you’re looking for. Liverpool destroyed their opponent in a Champions League semi-final, they obviously talked about the game in a way positive towards Liverpool.
It definitely beats the shit that UK viewers have to put up with; the likes of Humphreys, Sounness and Michael Owen.
The only thing that UK tv has over it in terms of quality of coverage is Monday Night Football. BT Sport is truly horrific.
I’m not sure what you’re looking for. Liverpool destroyed their opponent in a Champions League semi-final, they obviously talked about the game in a way positive towards Liverpool.
It definitely beats the shit that UK viewers have to put up with; the likes of Humphreys, Sounness and Michael Owen.
The only thing that UK tv has over it in terms of quality of coverage is Monday Night Football. BT Sport is truly horrific.
I am not sure how Liverpool hammering Roma last night has anything to do with why McAteer and Riise were covering the United - Spurs game three days before it? McAteer was especially dire offering non-coherent opinions and facing the wrong direction several times and staring at the ground while speaking. They quite often miss their video cues as well and not to mention there have been several occasions when the channel routinely plays previews of games that took place weeks ago. Not to mention a huge BeIn logo appears in the middle of the picture several times throughout the course of the game. A complete cringe fest.
Out of interest, which are the channels that this accusation is not leveled at?
Personally I really enjoy Peter Drury's commentary. Reacts to good moments and makes them thrilling. Certainly prefer him to Martin Tyler who sounds bored half the time.
I basically imagined Mcateer with the back of his to the camera giving expert opinions. It’s sounds like a comedy show.
It is a shambles, there are several occasions where the camera pans out to show the size of the studio, to the extent that you cannot actually make out the features of the presenters. I think budget is clearly an issue - with the exception of Ruud Gullit all the pundits seem to be spouting the same cliched nonsense all the time and singing off the same hymn sheet.
McAteer was interviewed on TalkSport a few years ago was askeda by the presenter if he'd seen United's most recent game and he said "if man utd were playing in my garden I'd close my curtains"
So yes, this man should definitely be commenting on our matches...
I'm not sure what happened. They used to have really decent panels a few years back. Gary Lineker. Glenn Hoddle. Terry Venables. Graeme Souness.
As soon as they brought in Keys and Gray, it all went downhill. Incidently, the moderator for the European matches (the redhead sitting besides McAteer last night) is Godawful.
What's with the enormous logo on the screen? As others have pointed out, it's a nuisance. Is there anyway to get rid of that?
As soon as they brought in Keys and Gray, it all went downhill. Incidently, the moderator for the European matches (the redhead sitting besides McAteer last night) is Godawful.
What's with the enormous logo on the screen? As others have pointed out, it's a nuisance. Is there anyway to get rid of that?
Really? That United Spurs coverage was something else with McAteer and Riise..
I fully get RAWK pundits for the Pool CL..
I did see the game on Saturday and I couldn't believe those two were on the punditry. The anger on their faces after the game was a joy to see. There are Liverpool pundits everywhere nowadays but The commentary on Bein is quite good actually.
At least this happens only occasionally for some, but here in Arab world they have all the rghts for all big competitions and we are forced to watch them and their terrible Arabic commentators (well, most of them) all the time.
Well they do offer La Liga, Serie A, EPL, Ligue 1, and Bundesliga.
Plus an NBA channel and all tennis grand slams.
Do you get the logo bouncing around the screen there too?
During the match or punditry ? Because I don't watch punditry anymore, I'm too old for this shite.Do you get the logo bouncing around the screen there too?
But during the match nothing happens as far as I'm concerned.During the match! They send a big bein sports logo floating around the pitch every 5 minutes or so.During the match or punditry ? Because I don't watch punditry anymore, I'm too old for this shite.
How can it possibly be any worse than Sky or BT? Every channel is fecking unbearable. *mute*
Dunno about 'nowadays' - if you look closely at the text of Bayeux Tapestry, there's ex-Liverpool players' commentary.
I regularly watch on BeIn when abroad for work - its no worse than some of the jokers who pass for pundits on Sky, BT etc
and I actually like see Keys&Gray back on PL footy - gives it a nostalgic feel
and I actually like see Keys&Gray back on PL footy - gives it a nostalgic feel
No don't remember seeing such thing. Maybe it's their English channels only.
The logo floating on the screen is there to stop other TV channels in the Middle East just streaming the BeIN Sports shows on their own channels. Apparently it is like a watermark. Last year it was a bizarre code of numbers that would crop up in the middle of the screen.
Tbf Riise needs the money. I should also add that not even his home city likes him.
I live in the middle east and have bein sports. Most of the time there are arabic commentators. Belive me no matter how bad is the English commentary it's like a gold compared to the Arabic ones.
In the Arabic commentators you will have some who don't know how to pronounce players' names. Some who keep talking for the whole game without one second of silence as if you're listening to them on the radio not on TV. Then there are the Barcelona/real Madrid parties which are the worst commentators of them all because all they do is just talking about real Madrid or barca even if the match is in the Qatari league!
So be grateful for what you got
Now about the logo, there are 2 things :
1 - the bein bouncing logo: that's get sent from the source (the broadcasting unit itself) and appears every few minutes and acts as a watermark so any other medium can't record or broadcast the game.
2 - the random code : which appears as black characters and sometimes as white characters on black background. Those are unique numbers generated by each receiver so they appear on one screen only. ( client side). The unique number is used to identify the subscribers who share their broadcast with others illegally.. Like streaming them online. That way the channel moderators can identify which user is responsible for the streaming and sue them.
I've been watching bein for years and it really annoys me those stupid things appearing on screen but unfortunately in the middle east it's a monopoly for them so I got no other option
In the Arabic commentators you will have some who don't know how to pronounce players' names. Some who keep talking for the whole game without one second of silence as if you're listening to them on the radio not on TV. Then there are the Barcelona/real Madrid parties which are the worst commentators of them all because all they do is just talking about real Madrid or barca even if the match is in the Qatari league!
So be grateful for what you got
Now about the logo, there are 2 things :
1 - the bein bouncing logo: that's get sent from the source (the broadcasting unit itself) and appears every few minutes and acts as a watermark so any other medium can't record or broadcast the game.
2 - the random code : which appears as black characters and sometimes as white characters on black background. Those are unique numbers generated by each receiver so they appear on one screen only. ( client side). The unique number is used to identify the subscribers who share their broadcast with others illegally.. Like streaming them online. That way the channel moderators can identify which user is responsible for the streaming and sue them.
I've been watching bein for years and it really annoys me those stupid things appearing on screen but unfortunately in the middle east it's a monopoly for them so I got no other option
Bellnd sports. - not for me!
@whatwha Just noticed the logo you were talking about. How the hell I have never noticed it before. 
Maybe I was too concentrating on the match.
Maybe I was too concentrating on the match.@whatwha Just noticed the logo you were talking about. How the hell I have never noticed it before.
It's pretty obvious!Looks very stupid. Another thing for me to mock them for.
Because he’s ginger?
I just watch Bein sports in Espanol so I can at least hear the stadium but not understand the commentary. Ray Hudson is cringe, the studio is awful.
I don't know if you get the same programs as I do here, but it's great for La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1, Bundesliga, and even Turkish Super Lig coverage.